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I seem to recall reading about a supersonic business jet being designed by some company or other.

• simonh 9y ago
  There are several companies working on the idea. There’s been a lot of work done recently on advanced aerodynamic designs that would significantly reduce the sonic boom for a given size of aircraft. On smaller planes this might reduce it to levels that would be considered tolerable over populated areas. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersonic_business_jet https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersonic_business_jet
• liquidise 9y ago
  Boom [1] has been on a number of HN comments, using a similar NYC <-> London model at a fixed cost. 1: https://boomsupersonic.com/ https://boomsupersonic.com/
  • Reason077 9y ago
    "Boom" is a terrible name for a company hoping to popularise supersonic transport. The "Boom" is not something they should be drawing attention to!
    • Boothroid 9y ago
      If they've minimised the boom perhaps it's genius.